Ladies British open amateur championship at Harlech

Pamela Pretswell driving from the second tee at Royal St David's Golf Club this morning and (above) Laura Collin and her father Alistair line up a putt on the first green. Images by Cal Carson Golf Agency.

Pamela Pretswell loses to Scot's

daughter Laura in third round

Scotland's last survivor, Pamela Pretswell, bowed out of the Ladies British open amateur championship in today's third round at Royal St David's Golf Club, Harlech in Northwest Wales.

The Bothwell Castle player lost at the 20th hole to Laura Collin (John O'Gaunt) after a match in which the Scot held a one-hole lead or was square.

Laura, whose father Alistair was born in Eyemouth and was capped for the Scotland boys' team, drove out of bounds (into the practice ground) at the 17th to give Pamela a one-hole lead.

But at the short 18th, Pamela's tee shot ran through the green into a dreadful lie in the rough.

She barely moved the ball with her first attempt to get it on the green and finished losing the hole with a double-bogey 5.

That sent the match into extra holes. Collin holed a 6ft putt to deny Pretswell victory at the 19th and triumphed at the second extra hole with with a pitch-and-putt 4 after going through the back with her second. Pamela drove into a bunker and took three shots to reach the putting surface.

Collin, whose 22nd birthday it is today, went on to play 14-year-old twin Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) in the afternoon quarter-finals. Leona won by 4 and 3 over Birmingham University student Sian James (Bristol & Clifton) by 4 and 3.

Leona was not the only 14 year old to reach the match-play stages.

Lauren Taylor (Woburn), conqueror of Roseanne Niven in the second round, is also 14 - Leona is the younger by four or five months, was beaten 7 and 5 by the No 2 seed Azahara Munoz (Spain), playing in the championship for the first time as she will turn pro after the US Women's Open next month.

Through to play Munoz for a place in Saturday morning's semi-finals is 22-year-old Rhian Wyn Thomas (Vale of Glamorgan) who beat Curtis Cup player Jodi Ewart from Catterick. Rhian won at the 19th against the New Mexico University student who is raniked No 9 on the US college circuit. Ewart drove into a bunker to lose the 19th, having been bunkered at the same hole at the start of nthe match.

Carlota Ciganda, the Spanish No 1 seed and winner of the title at the first attempt as a 17-year-old in 2007, continued to extend her sequence of match-play ties won with a 3 and 2 success over Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down) who holed a bunker shot to win the first.

Ciganda won four holes in a row from the fourth to surge into a three-hole lead and was two under par when she won by 3 and 2.

Ciganda's quarter-final opponent was 18-year-old Hannah Barwood (Knowle), last year's English women's champion. Hannah won by 2 and 1 against Swedish twin Caroline Hedwall who was beaten by compatriot Anna Nordqvist in last year's final at North Berwick.

Tbe third quarter-final pitted Caroline Masson (Germany) against Nathalie Mansson (Sweden). Caroline beat Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale) by 3 and 2 while Nathalie was also a 3 and 2 winner of France's Marion Ricordeau.

THIRD ROUND RESULTS

Carlota Ciganda (Spain) bt Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down) 3 and 2.
Hannah Barwood (Knowle) bt Caroline Hedwall (Sweden) 2 and 1.
Laura Collin (John O’Gaunt) bt Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) at 20th.
Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) bt Sian James (Bristol & Clifton) 4 and 3.
Caroline Masson (Germany) bt Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale) 3 and 2.
Nathalie Manson (Sweden) bt Marion Ricordeau (France) 3 and 2.
Rhian Wyn Thomas (Vale of Glamorgan) bt Jodi Ewart (Catterick) at 19th..
Azahara Munoz (Spain) bt Lauren Taylor (Woburn) 7 and 5.